This report consists of a brief summary of the status of a number of programs of an international nature which are now in progress at various observatories of the world. These programs have received strong endorsements from Commission 8 of this Union, as well as from a number of international organizations interested in accurate positions and motions of the stars to the 9th magnitude of brightness. Among the organizations and conferences which have explicitly endorsed the programs are:

(1) The Symposium on Coordination of Galactic Research, Groningen, 1953.

(2) Conference on the Problems of Astrometry, Evanston, 1953.

(3) Astrometric Conference, Pulkovo, 1954.

(4) Conference on Astrometry, Brussels, 1955.

(5) International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 1954 and 1963.

(6) International Astronomical Union, 1955.

(7) Second Astrometric Conference, Cincinnati, 1959.

(8) First Inter-American Conference on Astronomy, La Plata and Cordoba, 1959.

(9) Meeting on Problems of Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics, La Plata, 1960.

(10) Committee on Space Research, COSPAR, 1966.